Monday, September 24, 2018

Modern Fox

I finally finished the modern fox I was carving in wood. Or maybe I just stopped working on it! Actually, the biggest time spent working on it was sanding. This style sort of demanded that the finish be smooth instead of letting the carving marks show.

I put a 'barely there' finish on it that I often use for wooden frames. This consists of half odorless thinner, half linseed oil and a dab of oil paint in the color I wanted. In this case, it was a tiny amount of burnt sienna with the tiniest dab of bright red. I wanted this mixture to just tint the wood instead of it being an opaque, totally covering finish. With this finish, the wood grain shows through which I thought suited this carving.

Wood carving is good for a change of pace that helps charge the artistic atoms! It uses a different part of the brain and it's sometimes a struggle to switch from 2-D thinking to 3-D but I think this 3-D 'practice' helps me paint better 2-D images.

I may not ever be a great wood carver but I enjoy it; it's a great stress reliever in a different way from painting and helps keep me off the streets! lol

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I'm an artist living in the middle of the boonies but usually enjoying every minute of it. Living in the country means no cable or super fast internet connection and certainly no brick and mortar art stores within easy reach. But it also means that we have an abundance of wildlife right outside our door as well as beautiful landscape vistas just about anywhere we look. That's well worth the lack of modern conveniences to me.